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FinCEN Assesses $14.5 Million Penalty against UBS Financial Services for Anti-Money Laundering Failures

WASHINGTON—The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today announced an assessment against UBS Financial Services, Inc. (UBSFS) for willful violations of the Bank Secrecy Act…

Treasury’s FinCEN and Federal Banking Agencies Issue Joint Statement Encouraging Innovative Industry Approaches to AML Compliance

WASHINGTON—As a result of a working group established by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and the Federal depository institutions regulators, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and its regulatory partners today issued a joint…

Joint Statement on Innovative Efforts to Combat Money Laundering
FinCEN Reissues Real Estate Geographic Targeting Orders and Expands Coverage to 12 Metropolitan Areas

WASHINGTON—The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today announced the issuance of revised Geographic Targeting Orders (GTOs) that require U.S. title insurance companies to identify the natural persons behind shell companies used in all-cash purchases of residential real estate.…

FinCEN Issues Advisory on the Iranian Regime’s Illicit and Malign Activities and Attempts to Exploit the Financial System

UPDATE [6/6/2025]: This Advisory has been rescinded.

WASHINGTON—The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an advisory today to help financial…

Aviso de FinCEN advierte sobre riesgos asociados con la corrupción en Nicaragua

WASHINGTON— La Red Contra los Delitos Financieros (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, FinCEN) emitió un Aviso en el día de hoy, para alertar a las instituciones financieras de los Estados…

FinCEN Advisory Warns of Risks Linked to Corruption in Nicaragua

WASHINGTON—The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an advisory today to alert U.S. financial institutions of the increasing risk that proceeds of political corruption from Nicaragua may enter…

Federal Agencies Issue a Joint Statement on Banks and Credit Unions Sharing Resources to Improve Efficiency and Effectiveness of Bank Secrecy Act Compliance

WASHINGTON—The federal depository institutions regulators and the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today issued a

Interagency Statement on Sharing Bank Secrecy Act Resources

Introduction

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the U.S. Department of…

Federal Banking Agencies and FinCEN Announce Exemption from Customer Identification Program Requirements for Premium Finance Loans
Exceptive Relief from Beneficial Ownership Requirements for Legal Entity Customers of Rollovers, Renewals, Modifications, and Extensions of Certain Accounts
FinCEN Unveils New Insignia

FinCEN’s insignia emphasizes its unique mission to safeguard the financial system from illicit use and to promote national security through the collection, analysis, and dissemination of financial intelligence.  It prominently features several new symbols central to our mission.

Extension of Limited Exception from Beneficial Ownership Requirements for Legal Entity Customers of Certain Financial Products and Services with Rollovers and Renewals

On May 16, 2018, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a 90-day limited exceptive relief to covered financial institutions from the obligations of the Beneficial Ownership Rule for Legal Entity Customers (Beneficial Ownership Rule)1 for certain financial products and services…

Statement by FinCEN Director Kenneth A. Blanco in Support of Recent Anti-Terrorism Financing Actions by Argentina’s Financial Intelligence Unit

“This week, Argentina’s  Unidad de Informaciὀn Financiera de la República Argentina (UIF-AR)  took decisive action to freeze assets belonging to a transnational criminal organization linked to  Hezbollah and its global terror network.  I congratulate the UIF-AR, and…

FinCEN Issues Advisory on Human Rights Abuses Enabled by Corrupt Senior Foreign Political Figures and Their Financial Facilitators

WASHINGTON—The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an advisory today to U.S. financial institutions to highlight the connection between corrupt senior foreign political figures and their…